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Solar flares in March 2006
C-class6
M-class0
X-class0
LargestC2.52006-03-21
Sunspot number21.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2005 | 21 | 0 | 0 | C7.3 |
| March 2006 | 6 | 0 | 0 | C2.5 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-03-21 | 09:15 | 09:44 | 41 | C2.5 | S07W32 | 10862 |
| 2006-03-21 | 16:28 | 16:33 | 12 | C2.4 | S07W35 | 10862 |
| 2006-03-21 | 23:20 | 23:26 | 15 | C2.1 | S06W39 | 10862 |
| 2006-03-21 | 12:01 | 12:04 | 6 | C1.3 | S06W33 | – |
| 2006-03-21 | 18:35 | 18:42 | 12 | C1.2 | S06W37 | 10862 |
| 2006-03-21 | 19:13 | 19:20 | 12 | C1.1 | S06W37 | 10862 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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6 flares of class C or larger in March 2006; by M/X count it ranks 507 of 565 months.